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Bush official plays down opposition to tax plan Some in GOP skeptical, but Evans says program still not understood 01/13/2003 Associated Press WASHINGTON - The White House's lead salesman to Congress for the president's economic plan played down opposition from Senate Republicans, saying Sunday that the proposal is not fully understood. "I hope I'm going to take my business experience up to the Hill and talk about how the economy works and how businesses plan and how families plan and how they need a plan that has some permanency to it," Commerce Secretary Don Evans said on CBS' Face...

Cheney defends Bush tax-cut plan Critics continue attack, saying proposal benefits rich, will increase deficit 01/11/2003 By G. ROBERT HILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney rebutted critics of the administration's sweeping tax cut proposals Friday in what is becoming an increasingly difficult sell among Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. And within minutes of his rebuttal, Senate Democrats were back on the attack. "I believe there ought to be a tax cut, but I don't believe that we ought to have a $675 billion, 10-year tax cut at a time when we...